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February is the shortest month of the year, but London's courts still managed to convict and jail 39 people last month.

Of the 39 criminals from the capital who were locked up, 10 were from West London or committed their crimes in and around the area.

The horrifying crimes they committed range from murder on the streets of Kensington to guns and drug offences in Hounslow and even an Ealing couple who ran a brothel.

These are the 10 West London criminals jailed this month:

Hanwell traffickers and brothel-owners

Ivett Szuda is said to have given the women cocaine

Hanwell's Karl Ring and Ivett Szuda plied women with cocaine after shipping them over to service high paying customers who had booked them online, at a rented flat near Sloane Square, Chelsea.

It was lucrative work for Ring and Szuda who took half the money, cashing in hundreds of thousands of pounds despite neither of them holding down a job.

In fact, Karl had even volunteered as a Special Constable, or voluntary police officer, between 2013 and 2015. He had been renting the Chelsea Cloisters flat since April 2014, and ran two agencies offering escorts, webcam chat and sex.

He would pick the women up from Luton Airport and ferry them to the flat where they were made to work throughout the day and night.

In 2017, a woman had told police that Szuda, 32, had tricked her into coming to the UK and forced her to be a sex worker. Szuda would pay for flights but in return need half their earnings or a daily "rental rate" to her.

Karl Ring is one half of a couple who exploited Hungarian woman for profit

Once a dedicated financial investigators were brought in, the couple's statements were found, showing nearly £500,000 deposited in between September 2010 and February 2017, despite neither individual having a legitimate income or form of work.

Even more damningly, another £112,000 was suspiciously moved through another of the couple's accounts.

On 27 June 2018 officers raided Elthorne Avenue, Hanwell, and seized in excess of £22,000 in cash and numerous mobile phones. Szuda and Ring were both arrested.

A 27-year-old woman was also arrested in that raid, but she was released with no further action.

They were found guilty on Tuesday January 22, of human trafficking, controlling prostitution for gain, and money laundering. On Wednesday (February 6), Ring was jailed for four years, while Szuda received a six-and-a-half year prison sentence.

You can read the full story, including how financial investigators caught the couple, here .

Dangerous driver jailed after Harrow death

A 30-year-old dangerous driver from Enfield who killed a 63-year-old man after reversing the wrong way down a one-way road in Harrow was jailed for six years after pleading guilty at the Old Bailey .

Adrian Knox-Hooke was also disqualified from driving for eight years and will be required to pass an extended re-test after hitting Rajesh Naik at 11.50pm on August 5 2017 as he was crossing the road.

Mr Naik died in hospital of a serious head injury days later.

Knox-Hooke failed to stop at the scene and although he returned on foot minutes later, he failed to inform officers of his involvement.

An investigation was launched and he was arrested the next day and subsequently charged.

His family said their pain has been "beyond words" since Rajesh Naik was killed in the crash. Read the full story here .

Teenagers murdered rival outside a 16th birthday party

(Image: Metropolitan POlice)

Four teenagers found guilty in connection with a Kensington street brawl which left a teenage rapper dead were named and jailed last month.

Lewis Blackman died in February 2017 after a confrontation escalated into a full-blown skirmish at a 16th birthday party in Kensington .

A girl had rented out an Earls Court Road property as the venue for her 16th birthday party and drawn up a guest list of around 50 people, careful to invite those she knew from the Hackney area due to tensions between some of those invited and other men from Camden.

Lewis Blackman was stabbed to death in Kensington in February last year (Image: Metropolitan Police)

However, the invite was posted on social media. The 19-year-old - known to his friends as 'Dotty' - suffered fatal injuries when he tried to get into a party he had not been invited to.

Lewis was fatally stabbed after being chased down the street by a mob armed with weapons.

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Due to their ages, the defendants' names were never published, but reporting restrictions were lifted on Friday (February 15) at their sentencing.

This means the four teenagers responsible for Lewis' death can now be named by the media:

Lawrence Nkunku, 17, of Ward Lane, E9, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder - he must serve a minimum term of 18 years;

Thierry Edusei, 16, of Cannon Road, N17, was found guilty of manslaughter and was jailed for 11 years;

Paul Glasgow, 17, of Warwick Grove, E5, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder - he must serve a minimum term of 18 years;

Demario Williams, 17, of Bath Road, Enfield , was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder - he must serve a minimum term of 20 years.

Nkunku, Edusei, and Glasgow were convicted in October 2018. Their sentencings were timed to coincide with the sentencing of Williams.

You can read more about the dramatic ending of Lewis' life and the roles these teenagers played in his death in our full report here .

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Now at Her Majesty's Pleasure, Connors was brought in from a resort in Benidorm where he his after a bungled burglary (Image: Metropolitan Police)

A burglar who terrorised West London as part of a violent gang who burgled homes, fled to Benidorm after bungling a Harrow break-in.

James Connors drove through the Eurotunnel and made his way to a holiday resort in Benidorm to hide out after a violent burglary went wrong.

On December 1, Connors and his gang were burgling a home in West Drive, Harrow Weald , when the brave homeowner surprised them.

The gang began to attack the 50-year-old, until his 25-year-old son showed up. The dad was hit on head and punched in the jaw, while the son was hit with a tennis racket.

Eventually the gang cut their losses, fleeing from the family home empty-handed. Two days later, Connors realised something was wrong and made a swift escape via the Eurotunnel to the Spanish resort town.

Connors picked the buena vida of Benidorm's iconic Levante Beach as his hideaway from police in London (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

But some of Connors' blood has made on to a plant pot at the crime scene and he was already running out of time.

Spanish police arrested Connors on December 21 and put him on a flight back to London, where the 43-year-old was brought into court to face a charge of aggravated burglary.

Eventually the burglar pleaded guilty at Harrow Crown Court . On February 13, he was sentenced to eight years and three months in jail for his criminal actions.

Robber who disguised himself as Deliveroo rider

Ahmed pretended to be a delivery rider to avoid suspicion

Michael Ahmed, 25, from Wandsworth , was jailed for five years at Southwark Crown Court on February 22 after pretending to be a Deliveroo driver and committing robberies, as well as possessing a stun gun.

Ahmed hoped that wearing a Deliveroo jacket and carrying the company's branded delivery bag, despite having no affiliation with the company, would help him evade police suspicion. He also taped up part of his moped's registration plate.

On November 30, 2018, he approached a 17-year-old in Westminster and demanded his watch, threatening him with a stun gun and stealing his car keys when he fled. Less than an hour later he attempted to rob a 25-year-old in Kensington and Chelsea, getting into a scuffle with him before fleeing.

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